Public Takeovers and Mergers

 

Partner Contacts

 
Stephen CookeStephen Cooke 
“Slaughter and May’s M&A credentials need little introduction. It remains unrivalled for the quality of its M&A brand, particularly on public company transactions”

The Legal 500, 2009

 

We are a market leader in public takeovers and mergers and advise targets, bidders and financial advisers on UK and cross-border deals.

We have experience in recommended and hostile bids as well as those that involve competing bidders. We have a good relationship with the Takeover Panel, the organisation that governs public takeovers in the UK.

The deals on which we advise are:

  • strategically significant - we advised on the largest public takeover in the UK in 2009, the bid for Cadbury plc
  • groundbreaking - we advised on the first UK-Canadian dual listed company, the Thomson Reuters merger

Many of our largest takeovers and mergers have a financing element and our Acquisition and Leveraged Finance lawyers can advise on complex, highly structured and leveraged deals.

 

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